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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
a fishing vessel that uses long-lines.
See: long-line
Quotations
1955
Three new longliners are now under construction. . . .
1959
Ground-fishing operations--draggers with their great, bottom-scraping nets, and longliners with multiple lines armed with hundreds of baited hooks--were the principle targets.
1966
Three fishermen from Nova Scotia aboard the 42-foot longliner Maureen Rose set their lines in the North Atlantic fishing grounds, and turned in for the night.